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Vigil@nce - Wireshark: two vulnerabilities
March 2017 by Marc Jacob
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of Wireshark.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, Wireshark.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 24/01/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in Wireshark.
An attacker can generate an infinite loop via ASTERIX, in order to
trigger a denial of service. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5596,
wnpa-sec-2017-01]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop via DHCPv6, in order to
trigger a denial of service. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5597,
wnpa-sec-2017-02]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Wireshark-two-vulnerabilities-21659
